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As an Architect, my interest in 3d digital rendering is to create realistic photos of my unbuilt designs. Published 11 months ago. As an avid Blender user, I found the book very useful in providing guidance for everything from simple lighting setups to more complicated lighting setups. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. As an Architect, my interest in 3d digital rendering is to create realistic photos of my unbuilt designs. New coverage of occlusion sandwich technique and occlusion passes with displacement and reflections. I don't know why but the books I've read on 3D tend to leave me more frustrated than any area of learning that I've undertaken.
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Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. Read reviews that mention software helpful birn artist technical specific computer artists useful graphics explained example lights learn animation professional images maya chapter jeremy. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. While the text is clearly aimed at pre-rendered art, for example in animated movies or live-action effects, most of the concepts are fundamental enough to apply to lighting real-time scenes in games, or even more traditional art mediums. I found the pace to be good, and lots of important areas are covered.
The chapter list includes lighting design, shadows and occlusion, environments and architecture, characters, cameras, composition, the science of color, rendering algorithms, textures, layers, production pipelines, and an appendix for getting a job in the industry. My interest is definitely in real-time rendering, so many of the topics were not directly relevant.
However, I do have some experience with pre-rendered content creation, mostly noticeably during my time in art school, and some of the topics here were even beyond what I learned getting a 4 year degree. I will say that the material would be most apt for people doing film, and the book is certainly catering to that audience. However, in my case, I find a lot of the real-time books to be too narrowly focused on the algorithms and maths and not enough time is spent telling you how to use those methods to produce quality art. So I like looking at other sources to get a different perspective.
Even in games there is some crossover, for example in cut-scenes or making promotional images, so the knowledge can still be useful. All-in-all I enjoyed the book and I would highly recommend it to any current or aspiring 3d artist. One person found this helpful.
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If you're a hobby 3D graphhics artist or thinking of entering into the world of computer graphics, then this book is an essential resource to give you that realism factor often missing in artists works seen today. The Book is superbly presented in glossy paper format with excellently reproduced colour images that generously fill the book as examples of how to achieve the right lighting for that perfect shot you were trying to setup but till now had no idea of how to achieve it.
This volume is a how to for novice and advanced artist alike, brilliantly guiding you through the ins and outs of rendering the most perfectly realisticly shaded 3D image possible. Chapters guide you through Lighting workflow, three point lighting, Shadows a must ,Qualities of light, Colour, Exposure, Composition and staging worth the price of the book alone , Materials and rendering algorithms tips to turn a good work into a masterpiece and Compositing the absolute icing on the cake.
Lighting Creatures, Characters, and Animation Creating different looks in character lighting; how to light characters in motion and follow emotional shifts in scenes. Adjusting key, spill, bounce, fill, rim, and kick lights to model characters with light.
Strategies for developing character lighting rigs and lighting multiple characters. Mixing character lighting with set lights and global illumination. Tips and examples for lighting and rendering character eyes, skin shading and subsurface scattering, and lighting character hair. Cameras and Exposure Understanding exposure on real cameras: Matching with live-action cinematography and simulating camera artifacts in 3D: Composition and Staging Planning cinematic productions using different types of shots, using realistic camera rigs to simulate convincing camera moves, planning shots that will cut together well when edited, working in different digital and film formats and aspect ratios, using lighting to help improve your composition and enhance visual storytelling.
The Art and Science of Color New focus on the linear workflow, how to avoid problems with gamma and colorspaces, and why the linear workflow matters in lighting and compositing.
Creating a compelling scene through developing a consistent color scheme. The meanings of different colors, and using color to influence the emotional impact of a scene. Simulating a film color balance and matching Kelvin color temperatures for real light sources. Shaders and Rendering Algorithms Explore the basic components of materials and shaders, different kinds of shaders, and what kinds of looks you can create.
Different kinds of rendering algorithms: Reyes, raytracers, approaches to global illumination, and unbiased renderers. Designing and Assigning Textures This chapter features examples of many types of mapping, the differences between displacement, bump mapping, normal mapping, and polynomial texture mapping, different strategies for alignment between maps and geometry such as UV maps, projections, and Ptex, and tutorials on creating texture maps, equalizing levels to create better tiling maps.
This volume is a how to for novice and advanced artist alike, brilliantly guiding you through the ins and outs of rendering the most perfectly realisticly shaded 3D image possible. Chapters guide you through Lighting workflow, three point lighting, Shadows a must ,Qualities of light, Colour, Exposure, Composition and staging worth the price of the book alone , Materials and rendering algorithms tips to turn a good work into a masterpiece and Compositing the absolute icing on the cake. There is a Lot one can learn from this volume and dare I say that it has to be if not the best then one of the very best presentations on this topic I've ever had the good fortune to study from.
Reviewers all over the internet have raved about this book for years and I was not disappointed when I finally purchased it last month. The author makes the information general enough so that it is useful no matter what software you use. As an Architect, my interest in 3d digital rendering is to create realistic photos of my unbuilt designs. However, I found the author's information on composing, lighting, and rendering animated characters which seems to be the author's main focus incredibly helpful in fulfilling my goals.
Birn's approach is thorough and no-nonsense. If only all the documentation for 3D software were written like this clear and concise book.
I don't know why but the books I've read on 3D tend to leave me more frustrated than any area of learning that I've undertaken. It's a complex subject but some authors seemed determined to make it harder than it is.
He explains not just how to do something but why. The added bonus is that the information is platform agnostic. He seems to cover a lot of the different terms software companies use to describe the same processes and he candidly assesses their value in the finished work.
There a plenty of clear color renderings that show the subtle differences that are the difference between good and great. The 2nd edition was already an outstanding book.